Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade 1 by Modest Mussorgsky
Series
Promenade I
60" x 60" - 152 x 152 cm (2023)
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
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Promenade 1 Explained
With Permission: 2024 Canadian National Brass Project, Recorded at St. Anne's Church, Toronto, ON Aug 29 - Sept 2, 2016 canadiannationalbrassproject.com
Narration by: Sam Rosenthal & Michelle Piller
Narration by: Sam Rosenthal & Michelle Piller
Each promenade demonstrates the logic of theme and variation. Asymmetric meter opens a rhythmic aperture to memory and imagination.
Shared material returning changed.
The shifting 5/4 and 6/4 pulse sets the gait, one step short, one long. Its uneven tread becomes an ebb and flow of exploration, curiosity pressing outward while introspection folds inward. Facets read as steps, seams as bar lines. Tilts, scales, colours, and shapes act as accents and rests. The viewer moves now to the left, now to the right, now wandering, now eager, carrying the rhythm forward.
Shared material returning changed.
The shifting 5/4 and 6/4 pulse sets the gait, one step short, one long. Its uneven tread becomes an ebb and flow of exploration, curiosity pressing outward while introspection folds inward. Facets read as steps, seams as bar lines. Tilts, scales, colours, and shapes act as accents and rests. The viewer moves now to the left, now to the right, now wandering, now eager, carrying the rhythm forward.
I work from the sense that rhythm and time are forms of belonging, part of a larger cosmos in which motion and return are inseparable. Music renders that belonging audible, and painting lets me listen with my eyes. This first promenade opens the journey, gathering orbit and continuity at the threshold, and inviting each viewer to carry their own centre forward into the unfolding experience.– Paula Arciniega
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